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Summary: Arm yourself with a great tool
Review: Dieting is very tough. Why not arm yourself with a great tool. Mastercook provides nutritional information in a snap. Mastercook can help those who count calories, those who count food exchanges, and is helpful for Weight Watchers Folks gather information so they can then determine their points. I have owned several versions of MasterCook. This version is a great update to a super program. This will enable you to store recipes, and catagorize them as you wish. You will be able to email recipes to other people online. MasterCook comes with great recipes, and many of them have photos. MasterCook will help you generate shopping lists, saving you time, and it will help you scale recipes. Another aspect about this program that is extremely helpful is if you enjoy mailing lists, there are tons out there. I bet you have noticed that many people send their stuff in Mastercook format. You can email straight from Mastercook, and IMPORT recipes as well.
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Summary: Arm yourself with a great tool
Review: Dieting is very tough. Why not arm yourself with a great tool. Mastercook provides nutritional information in a snap. Mastercook can help those who count calories, those who count food exchanges, and is helpful for Weight Watchers Folks gather information so they can then determine their points. I have owned several versions of MasterCook. This version is a great update to a super program. This will enable you to store recipes, and catagorize them as you wish. You will be able to email recipes to other people online. MasterCook comes with great recipes, and many of them have photos. MasterCook will help you generate shopping lists, saving you time, and it will help you scale recipes. Another aspect about this program that is extremely helpful is if you enjoy mailing lists, there are tons out there. I bet you have noticed that many people send their stuff in Mastercook format. You can email straight from Mastercook, and IMPORT recipes as well.
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Summary: Excellent resource
Review: I just received this item and immediately loaded it onto my computer. The first thing that I noticed is that it will take a little bit of time to learn to navigate through it. I consider myself pretty computer savvy so I was put off at first. But it is just like any other program, you have to play around and then you will figure it out. It has a fairly large User Manual and I have been looking through that. This program is so extensive! It is absolutely wonderful. I think that it will do ANYTHING! If you are a person who has to count calories, fat grams, cholesterol etc then you must get this! It gives you any information that you need to know. The best part is that it already has so much information stored into the program. I entered some of my own recipes and it calculated the nutritional information for each recipe. There are many recipes that I have had for a long time that I had no idea what the fat grams, calories etc would be and it figures it right up for you! Plus, if there is a product that isn't in the program's database and you can add that product's information. If you add that product to a recipe it will take the information that you entered to calculate the nutritional value of the recipe. Another great feature for families of all sizes is the recipe scaling. I have such a hard time cooking for my husband and myself. We always have huge portions of leftovers. With this program it will automatically scale the recipe for two people. Or if I am going to have company I can scale the recipe larger so that I have enough. It is such a pain to do that manually. This makes it easy. OH! and of course the recipes! There are so many! You may not ever have to buy another cookbook! For [the price] you can't beat that! It is money well spent for anyone looking for new recipes and other excellent features. There are plenty of other things that this program does that I haven't even been able to get to. It will be fun learning them all and playing with all of the new things that I can do with the program. Now, if I can just get it to cook the meals.
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Summary: Excellent resource
Review: I just received this item and immediately loaded it onto my computer. The first thing that I noticed is that it will take a little bit of time to learn to navigate through it. I consider myself pretty computer savvy so I was put off at first. But it is just like any other program, you have to play around and then you will figure it out. It has a fairly large User Manual and I have been looking through that. This program is so extensive! It is absolutely wonderful. I think that it will do ANYTHING! If you are a person who has to count calories, fat grams, cholesterol etc then you must get this! It gives you any information that you need to know. The best part is that it already has so much information stored into the program. I entered some of my own recipes and it calculated the nutritional information for each recipe. There are many recipes that I have had for a long time that I had no idea what the fat grams, calories etc would be and it figures it right up for you! Plus, if there is a product that isn't in the program's database and you can add that product's information. If you add that product to a recipe it will take the information that you entered to calculate the nutritional value of the recipe. Another great feature for families of all sizes is the recipe scaling. I have such a hard time cooking for my husband and myself. We always have huge portions of leftovers. With this program it will automatically scale the recipe for two people. Or if I am going to have company I can scale the recipe larger so that I have enough. It is such a pain to do that manually. This makes it easy. OH! and of course the recipes! There are so many! You may not ever have to buy another cookbook! For [the price] you can't beat that! It is money well spent for anyone looking for new recipes and other excellent features. There are plenty of other things that this program does that I haven't even been able to get to. It will be fun learning them all and playing with all of the new things that I can do with the program. Now, if I can just get it to cook the meals.
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Summary: Great Software Tool!
Review: I received the Cooking Light software via a promotion and have loved its functionality. It is everything a cookbook should be. You can build your own cookbooks with your favorite recipes, import recipes from the Internet, recalculate servings, and even develop a shopping list (one that you can sort by food item or location in store). One of the cooler features involves listing everything in your kitchen, then hit a button and MasterCook scans its recipes to give you a list of what you can make with what you have. People who are concerned about nutrition will enjoy that MasterCook calculates nutritional values for all your recipes. The interface for the software is easy to use although it takes some getting use to the idea of the navigation buttons being at the bottom of the screen instead of at the top. Groups will enjoy the tool in that it allows you to "publish" a paper version of your cookbook complete with graphics. Very useful for fund raisers and other activities. The software also includes a subsitution list and a wine list. It's a great product and I look forward to future releases. I hope they'll add the ability to export shopping lists to PDAs and the possibility of "publishing" your cookbook to the web.
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Summary: Mixed Feelings
Review: I received this software as a gift and was very excited as I experimented with it and tried the various features. The ability to search by ingredient is great for when you have an ingredient on hand that you want to use up (especially if you have a vegetable garden). However, if you're buying it for the recipe-scaling feature, be careful. It doesn't work how you think it might. I'm ending up scaling the recipes by hand to avoid messing up the search engine.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I was disappointed to learn that this product does not work on Windows XP. As I looked into the matter, I discovered that Sierra is discontinuing the MasterCook line. I have been using it since version 3. It seems like they were so interested in making the interface 'pretty' that they forgot to make it usable. Navigating is a real hassle. It's not surprising that they decided to discontinue the line. It's still very disappointing though. I started using Cook'n and so far, I am extremely pleased. I received an e-mail message from the President himself shortly after registering. I was somewhat skeptical about it but I replied and discovered that the software was developed by a guy who loves what he does. He's been doing it for nine years. I feel much more confident putting my recipes in Cook'n...knowing that at least the product will be supported for years to come.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I was disappointed to learn that this product does not work on Windows XP. As I looked into the matter, I discovered that Sierra is discontinuing the MasterCook line. I have been using it since version 3. It seems like they were so interested in making the interface 'pretty' that they forgot to make it usable. Navigating is a real hassle. It's not surprising that they decided to discontinue the line. It's still very disappointing though. I started using Cook'n and so far, I am extremely pleased. I received an e-mail message from the President himself shortly after registering. I was somewhat skeptical about it but I replied and discovered that the software was developed by a guy who loves what he does. He's been doing it for nine years. I feel much more confident putting my recipes in Cook'n...knowing that at least the product will be supported for years to come.
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Summary: Excellent Resource for Serious Recipe Collectors
Review: I've always been a fan of Cooking Light's recipes but the greatest feature of this software is that it allows you to organize, store and manage all of your recipes! The software allows you to create your own cookbooks, import recipes from the internet and even scan in photos. I will admit, though, that the instruction manual was not clear on how to use the import wizard but once you figure it out it's a breeze! If you have text conversion software for your scanner you can scan all of those recipes you've pulled from magazines and import them into the program. It has put an end to the clutter and gives me easy access to recipes. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Excellent Resource for Serious Recipe Collectors
Review: I've always been a fan of Cooking Light's recipes but the greatest feature of this software is that it allows you to organize, store and manage all of your recipes! The software allows you to create your own cookbooks, import recipes from the internet and even scan in photos. I will admit, though, that the instruction manual was not clear on how to use the import wizard but once you figure it out it's a breeze! If you have text conversion software for your scanner you can scan all of those recipes you've pulled from magazines and import them into the program. It has put an end to the clutter and gives me easy access to recipes. I highly recommend it.
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